Situations urbaines et pratiques sociales en Afrique.

Abstract

J.-M. Gibbal, E. Le Bris, A. Marie, A. Osmont, G. Salkm—Urban Situations and Social Practices in Africa. Editorial presentation of the second special issue of CEA on African towns (not on 'the African town'). In this issue the methodological accent is put on microanalyses concerned mainly with small social groups and qualitative rather than quantitative descriptions of social practices and processes, resulting into three principal themes: strategies of insertion into the urban milieu;'informal' economie actions; a provisional and partial attempt towards a wider synthesis on social stratification processes.